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Anisotropic spatial clustering of TB in cattle - the implications for control policy

Kelly, Gabrielle E. (Elsevier, 2011)

Bovine TB is a disease that affects cattle and the wildlife badger, species Meles meles, in Ireland and the UK, and badgers have been implicated in the spread of the disease in cattle. Efforts to eradicate the disease that ...
Clustering Ordinal Data via Latent Variable Models

McParland, Damien ; Gormley, Claire (2013-04)

Item response modelling is a well established method for analysing ordinal response data. Ordinal data are typically collected as responses to a number of questions or items. The observed data can be viewed as discrete ...
A long term observational study of the impact of badger removal on herd restrictions due to bovine TB in the Irish midlands during 1989-2004

Kelly, Gabrielle E. ; Condon, J. ; More, Simon John ; Dolan, L. ; Higgins, I. ; Eves, J. (Cambridge Journals, 2008-10)

An observational study was carried out, using data collected from four areas in the Irish midlands, between 1989 and 2004, to critically evaluate the long-term effects of proactive badger culling and to provide insights ...
Body mass index and height over three generations: evidence from the Lifeways cross-generational cohort study

Murrin, Celine ; Kelly, Gabrielle E. ; Tremblay, Richard E. ; Kelleher, Cecily (BioMed Central, 2012-01)

Background: Obesity and its measure of body mass index are strongly determined by parental body size. Debate continues as to whether both parents contribute equally to offspring body mass which is key to understanding the ...
Spatial clustering of TB-infected cattle herds prior to and following proactive badger removal

Kelly, Gabrielle E. ; More, Simon John (Cambridge University Press, 2011-08)

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is primarily a disease of cattle. In both Ireland and the UK, badgers (Meles meles) are an important wildlife reservoir of infection. This paper examined the hypothesis that TB is spatially correlated ...